First six named to Westport Central Wall of Distinction

Retired Westport teacher and coach Tom Beauvais, who was inducted into the Basketball Coaches Association of New York’s Hall of Fame, is one of six to be inducted as the first members of the schools' Wall of Distinction.
Photo by Keith Lobdell.

Westport  Six members of the Westport Central School community will be the inaugural members of the district’s Wall of Distinction.

The six: former teacher and coach Ed Card; graduate, district employee and current school board president Alice LaRock; former teacher and coach Tom Beauvais; neurosurgeon and alum Dr. Lara Davis; athlete and current basketball coach Julie Moore; and athlete and current Schuylerville Central School Superintendent Ryan Sherman, will be honored at the first Induction Dinner Saturday, Oct. 6, beginning at 6 p.m. at the Westport Hotel and Tavern.

“We stuck with a range of having inductees from different decades,” Dr. John Gallagher, current superintendent and member of the Wall of Distinction Committee, said. “We had a list of people who the board had previously been approached about honoring along with names that were submitted by the community and names that were brought up by the committee.”

The Wall of Distinction at the school was created to recognize and honor those individuals who have been involved at Westport Central School as an employee or student that has excelled both as a student/teacher or after graduation.

“In August we came together and looked at all of the nominees, picking these six,” Gallagher said. “There was unanimous consent and then we got to work contacting each of them.”

Gallagher said that the committee has been in contact with all of the inductees except one.

“We have been trying to get a hold of Dr. Davis,” he said. “She works in Boston and we have tried calling the numbers that we have and contacting her parents. If we cannot get a hold of her for this year, we will honor her at our next dinner.”

Comments

It's really good that Ryan Sherman is being so honored. He's a man with impeccable character; a real stand-up kinda guy that the community should be proud of and celebrate. He has accomplished great things, and deserves to be on a Wall of Distinction.

BTW- insert sarcasm at any point here. Ryan Sherman is none of these things.